Okay, I am having a very strange issue that I've never seen before. For some reason, I cannot open up any document that is associated with Open Office off of a network share. Whenever I try to do so, I get the following message:

Could not display "smb://192.168.1.105/z_drive/Information2.doc".
There is no application installed for Word document files

I can copy the document to the desktop and it'll open up just fine. This is only happening when trying to open documents on that share that are associated with Open Office. All other files (media files, pdf files, etc..) will open fine.

I have tried removing Open Office and reinstalling it, but that hasn't solved this strange problem.

This is on an Ubuntu workstation, fwiw.

I "mapped" the share by going to Places -> Server -> Windows Share -> and putting in my credentials that way.

Thanks in advance.

09-29-2010

UncleSniper

Re: Cannot open docs off of network share

I would assume some part of the application chain (I'm guessing the file manager) figures that a smb://... URL cannot be "just" opened -- the program that is supposed to open it (OpenOffice in this case) would need "special" Samba support to be able to do this.

"The" way to enable *any* program to open the file would probably be mounting the share into the "normal" filesystem tree, i.e.

sudo mkdir /mnt/smb
sudo mount //192.168.1.105/z_drive /mnt/smb -ousername=YourUserName,password=YourPassword
oowriter /mnt/smb/Information2.doc # or whatever the word processor is called these days